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European soccer fans residing in the U.K. can now ask Cortana for updates on their favorite football (soccer for you Yanks) teams and games.While Cortana isn’t officially available outside of the U.S. and the U.K., there is a way to enable Cortana if you reside outside of those areas. Cortana provides updates for teams from France, Germany, Spain, the U.K. and Italy.This feature is location-based by the way, so if you’re in the U.

More than three months after the first builds of Windows Phone 8.1 hit the scene, Microsoft is ready to tick more features off the to-do list with the OS's first refresh.The download will be available as a developer preview starting next week. Understandably, Cortana is on the top of the release notes, because the beta program will officially expand to the UK and China as promised in April.Users in both countries can enjoy different voices and more localized options, such as air quality info, local celebrities, specialized suggestions and commute times.

Microsoft’s upcoming digital assistant that is known as Cortana has seen its fair share of rumors in the past.Now, a Microsoft Program Manager, Marcus Ash, has informed his followers over Twitter that Cortana will soon see an expansion of her reach, hitting the United Kingdom and in China “very soon”.This is definitely a welcome development in the right direction.